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J. F. FRANTA. Distender for Gaiters.

Nb; 231,706. Patent ed Aug. 31, i880.

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' lyfflnfaz %IM7A BY i ATTORNEY:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH F. FRANTA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO MICHAEL FARNAN, OF SAME PLACE; SAID FRANTA AND FARNAN ASSIGNORS OF ON E-THIRD OF THEIR RIGHT TO ERNEST MARX, ALSO OF SAME PLACE. Y

DISTENDER FOR GAITERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,706, dated August 31., 1880.

Applicationfiled January 28, 1880.

To all whom it may concern: In using this instrument the same is com- 20 Be it known that I, JOSEPH F. FRANTA, of pressed, inserted into the upper of gaiter disthe city of New York, State of New York, have tended, and then looked against compression invented a new and useful Distender for Gaitby passing the tongue into one of the slots at. 5 ers, of which the following is a specification. The upper of a rubber gaiter is thus kept dis- My invention relates to a device to be used tended, and access to the inside for sewing, 25 in the manufacture of gaiters for the purpose for the hand, and the eye greatly facilitated. of facilitating the sewing by hand; and it 0011- Having thus described my invention, what sists, principally, in an elastic ring which is I claim is 10 inserted into the uppers of gaiters and locked The distending-ring for gaiters, provided against compression, so as to distend the upwith one or more slots at or near one end and 30 pers and give ready access to the hand, and an outwardly-projecting tongue at the other also expose the interior to view. end for locking the ring against compression,

The annexed drawing is a perspective view substantially as described. 15 of my distender for gaiters. JOSEPH F FRANTA.

A is a ring, of brass or other elastic material, provided at one end with one or more Witnesses: slots, at, and at the other end with a tongue, I), ERNST BILHUBER, which fits into the slots. HENRY BLEIDoN. 

